Past Events

In this Military Briefing, co-organized with Geneva Call, panelists will discuss the operational challenges and opportunities of turning guerrillas into deminers.

The 2018 edition will notably focus on the protection of human rights in the digital age and will include a public conference by Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

In the context of the 2018 Geneva Peace Week and in partnership with the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), this event will address forced displacement and demographic engineering in Syria.

This panel will focus on the practicalities of how international humanitarian law is used and the role it plays in the work of the UN human rights machinery.

We look forward to welcoming students, their friends, families and our professors at the 2018 Graduation Ceremony.

This seminar, co-organized with the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights of the University of Oslo, will address the role which domestic human rights actors play within the UN human rights treaty body system.

This conference in Berlin will discuss the significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights today.

A Geneva Human Rights Platform consultation with the Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, civil society representatives and academics.

Human rights advocates talk about the challenges they face and the tactics they use in documenting and reporting human rights violations and securing justice for victims in conflict.

This IHL Talk will focus on the major challenges in the implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty as well as on the opportunities it offers to halt the transfer of weapons when they could be used to violate IHL and IHRL.